monet, van gogh, cezanne, underwood...

so i took Painting I as an elective this semester, just because i like art and making things. well i've complained about it most of the year. i love ms. noe - she's so perfectly eccentric - and i love the class, but we only meet once a week. we have the rest of the week to work on a painting on our own. that's fine, except i have no good place to paint and i have class and work the whole time the art barn is open to students. so basically i like it but it's extremely inconvenient.

plus i've only had like one piece i've even liked the whole time.

well we had this huge project to do: Famous Faces. we had to trace all the shadows of a famous woman's face onto a huge piece of matte board and then paint it in some non-human colors. i ended up doing mine (Natalie Wood), start to finish, last night. i loooooove the way it turned out.



so at the end of class today, i had to ask ms noe a question about my painting, so we talked about it for a minute, and she preceded to tell me that i really just had lots of natural talent, and she knew i was a senior, but really hoped that i would continue to work at painting because i was just really good at it. ok, i had no idea. i thought i was ok, but not like what she was talking about! she told me she was glad she caught me on my own to tell me because she wouldn't have said it in front of the other students, but wanted me to know that i was talented.

so wow! what a good note to end my school day on! it was probably just a ploy to get me to sign up for one of her classes next semester... which i'm going to go do now.